"It's truly alarming that this has happened," he told The Associated Press by telephone from Mali's capital, Bamako. "They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography and science. It is the history of Timbuktu, of its people."

There are no 'good' muslims, but there are scared religionists that could, if that thought they could, stop the bad muslims from being bad.

It requires killing the bad muslims by the good religionists.

We non islamists know that killing the islamist is the only way to stop them, and unfortunately, just as a whole slew of us white kids kicked everything Americanly traditional out of our lives in the 60's, the youth of the islamist will always rise up against anything non islam.

I know this may sound convoluted, but it makes sense to me

Islam has to be denied a place and a voice in the world.

We should no longer call them islamists or muslims but satanist.

I think THAT might be a more effective way of stopping the advance of this evil.

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posted on 01/28/2013 7:00:16 AM PST
by knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)

This is indeed a tragedy. Mali is no backwater but in its day an advanced civilization. Ibn Battuta, a world traveller, who was there in the 14th century, described it as a country where you could travel anywhere without any fear of molestation or robbery. This year on the Internet someone put up a list of richest men of all time and a Mali king Mansa Musa I came in first beating out the Rothschilds.

"Timbuktu's famous manuscripts, believed to number in the hundreds of thousands, mainly date from the 14th to 16th centuries, when the city was an important hub for trade and Islamic knowledge. Often written in Arabic but also some local languages, they cover areas such as medicine and astronomy, as well as poetry, literature and Islamic law. Many were kept for centuries in private family libraries, passed down through the generations.

The city's huge and priceless cultural heritage, a legacy of its medieval status as an African equivalent to Oxford or Cambridge, complete with bustling university, was little known in the outside world, with even the French, Mali's colonial rulers until 1960, carrying away some manuscripts to museums but doing little to unearth the full story behind them.

In a Moslem world there will be no traces of history prior to the time that Islam arose or was imposed, nothing outside of Islam. If Islam conquers all than knowledge and evidence that anything else ever existed will be effaced. The world will become semi arid sheep lands and desert with a a very small number of relatively opulent cities- where he rulers live and rule. The technology will continuously decline because nothing is added to it and things wear out and Mohammed did not use flush toilets, anyway.

Caliph Umar, destroyed the Alexandria Library shortly after the conquest of Egypt in 639 AD. The account states that the caliph, when informed about the institution, declared that if the books it contained agreed with the Koran, then they were superfluous, and if they disagreed, then they were heretical. In either event, they were worthless and should be obliterated.

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posted on 01/28/2013 9:06:56 AM PST
by PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)

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